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Definition of Consummate

Carried to the utmost extent or degree; of the highest quality; complete; perfect.

To bring to completion; to raise to the highest point or degree; to complete; to finish; to perfect; to achieve.

make perfect; bring to perfection

fulfill sexually

How to use consummate in a sentence. Consummate pronunciation.

To look into our _Modern Plays_, and there to see the Differences of Good and Evil confounded, Prophaneness, Irreligion, and Unlawful Love, made the masterly Stroaks of the _fine Gentleman_; Swearing, Cursing, and Blaspheming, the Graces of his Conversation; and Unchristian Revenge, to consummate the Character of the _Hero_; Sharpness and Poignancy of Wit exerted with the greatest Vigor against the _Holy Order_; in short, Religion and all that is Sacred, Burlesqu'd and Ridicul'd; To see this, I say, and withall, to reflect upon the fatal Effects which these things have already had, and how much worse are likely to follow, if not timely prevented, cannot but fill the Minds of all good Men with very dismal Apprehensions.

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The "Evenings on a Farm" indicates the possession of great power rather than consummate skill in the use of it.

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This situation has all the elements of true drama, as every one knows who has read or heard "Carmen;" it is needless to say that Turgenev has developed it with consummate skill.

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Pages of consummate realism are interwoven with the most fantastical incidents worthy only of the most incorrigible romantics.

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To consummate her mournful sacrifice, the poor woman did not shrink from covering herself, even in the presence of the man she loved, with the mantle of old age.

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As the axiom of your school seems to be that everything can be made perfect at once, without time, without experience, without practice, and without preparation, I have no doubt, with the aid of a treatise or two, You will make a consummate naval commander, although you have never been at sea in the whole course of your life.

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He has ordained and established the House of Justice which is endowed with a political as well as a religious function, the consummate union and blending of church and state.

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That a "word-master" so abnormal is apt to be deficient in logical sense seems to have been Borrow's deliberate opinion (with a saving clause as to exceptions), and I have often thought that it must have been Shakespeare's too, for does he not ascribe a command of tongues to the man who is perhaps the most consummate idiot in the whole range of Shakespearean portraiture?

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This case, which was argued with consummate ability, and with words as eloquent as they were logical and lucid, melting a cold court into tears, placed Webster in the front rank of lawyers, which he kept until he died.

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Whenever there was a contract to be entered upon, an important move to be decided, or a representative of the manufactory to be sent anywhere to consummate a deal, Lester was the agent selected.

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This is generally regarded as a piece of consummate general ship on the part of their leader.

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One must be a consummate trailer, a good shot, have tireless limbs and wind and a complete knowledge of the animal's habits and ways of moving and thinking.

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After a time Grace realized the consummate cruelty of those hours, the fact that Lily was sent for, not only because the old man cared to see her, but to make Grace feel the outsider that she was.

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In what follows, Borrow reveals in a consummate manner his power of drawing into his vicinity extraordinary events: "On my release, I did not revisit my lodgings for some days, but lived at an hotel.

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Thus, these depraved young men ruined and murdered their benefactress and her child; and displayed, before they were thirty, such a consummate villainy as few wretches grown hoary in vice have perpetrated.

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I vain fool so frantic, household traitor so consummate?

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These worthies suffer in the flesh and do penance all their lives, I suppose, but they look like consummate famine-breeders.

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So consummate a performance must not be hastened; besides there was no one to pose for either the head of Christ or of Judas.

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But not until La Gioconda had posed for him did the consummate beauty and mysterious intellect of this ideal countenance find expression.

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As for you, nobilissim praegustators, and my gentilissim masticators, your frequently experimented industry, internected with perdiligent sedulity and sedulous perdiligence, continually adjuvates you to perficiate all things in so expeditious a manner that there is no necessity of exciting in you a cupidity to consummate them.

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Examples of Consummate

Example #1

It is impossible to say, how many, and how great the _Mischiefs_ are that spring from thence; which if a Man should take a View of, it would perhaps, be one of the most Melancholy Prospects that ever he beheld.

Example #2

And are these then the Entertainments for a Christian to be pleas'd with; for one whose _Salvation_ is to be wrought out with Fear and Trembling?

Example #3

Full of charm as it is, it cannot by any stretch of language be called a masterpiece.

Example #4

Pushkin used to say that the Northern summer was a caricature of the Southern winter.

Example #5

Turgenev regarded brilliantly wicked women with hatred and loathing, but also with a kind of terror; and he has never failed to make them sinister and terrible.

Example #6

Turgenev has taken for his hero Litvinov, a young Russian, thoroughly commonplace, but thoroughly practical and sincere, the type of man whom Russia needed the most, and has placed him between two women, who represent the eternal contrast between sacred and profane love.